Studio: international art (45.1909)

Recent Paintings by John Lavery, R.S.A., R.H.A.

year, now in Venice Gallery of Modern Art),
Croquet : a Portrait Group (1890), a Lady in
Black (1892, and again 1898), the finely
virile portrait of James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
(1898), a Garden of France (same year, Phila-
delphia Modern Gallery), La Dame aux
Perles (1900, Dublin Modern Gallery),
and the delightful Violin Player (1901)—
brought him to the front of modern British
art.

That his position was recognised in
Glasgow at the end of the eighties is shown
by the fact that about this time he was com-
missioned by its Corporation to paint the
State Entry of Queen Victoria ; and the
Father and Daughter, now in the Luxem-
bourg Gallery, was, I believe, the first pre-
sentment of his daughter Eileen, who appears

PORTRAIT OF MRS. BAKER BY JOHN LAVERY

Edinburgh and Glasgow, gave a new impulse to the
movement. A group of younger artists was being
formed under these influences, many of whom have
since come to the front—among them James Guthrie,
D. Y. Cameron, Paterson, Christie, George Henry,
and two young friends of the Haldane Academy,
Alexander Roche and John Lavery. The spirit of
revolt against Academic tradition was the link which
united these “ Glasgow Boys,” whose individual ten-
dencies were so strong and rich. They first exhibited
as a body in the Grosvenor Gallery of 1890, but
before that both Roche and Lavery had gone to
study at the Julian Academy in Paris.

The “ Glasgow Boys ” had become a power, if
not in England, at least on the Continent, where their
appearance in the Munich Glaspalast caused a sen-
sation and almost an artistic schism ; and in these
years a succession of fine portraits from Mr. Lavery’s
hand—fames Guthrie (1886), Mother and Son (same

PORTRAIT OF MRS. TREVOR BY JOHN LAVERY

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